Dialectal Paleotype Dialectal Paleotype and was developed by Alexander J. Ellis (1814-1890), a phonetician, philologist and music theorist. Ellis used his invention to represent the sounds of the dialects of English and undertook a major survey of (mainly) rural dialects in Britain in the 1880s. Ellis created a number of other phonetic transcription systems to…
Pāli (पालि) Pāli is the language of the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism, (the Pāli Canon or the Tipitaka in Pāli), which were written in Sri Lanka during the 1st century BC. Pāli has been written in a variety of scripts, including Brahmi, Devanāgarī and other Indic scripts, and also using a version of the Latin…
Occitan Occitan is a Romance language spoken mainly in southern France and also in Italy and Spain. There are perhaps 1.5 million people who speak Occitan in their daily lives, while 5 or 6 million people are able to speak the language. The majority of speakers are elderly and live in rural areas. There are…
Nagamese Creole (Nagamiz) Nagamese Creole is a creole based on Assamese, Hindi, English and Naga languages. It is spoken by about 300,000 people and used in Nagaland, a small state in the north east of India. Nagamese is used as a lingua franca in schools, markets, hospitals, the legislative assembly and churches by the peoples…
Nahuatl (nāhuatl/nawatlahtolli) Nahuatl is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by about 1.5 million people in Mexico. The majority of speakers live in central Mexico, particularly in Puebla, Veracruz, Hildago, San Luis Potosi, Guerrero, Mexico (state), El Distrito Federal, Tlaxcala, Morelos and Oaxaca, and also in El Salvador. There are smaller numbers of Nahuatl speakers throughout the…
Naljeogigeul Naljeogigeul is an alternative script for Korean created by Bae Jun in summer 1994 when he was a high school student. It’s a syllabic system based on Hangul, and the shapes of the letters are particially influenced by Hangul, Hebrew, Cyrillic and other various scripts. The initial idea was to construct an easily…
Naljeogigeul The Naljeogigeul alphabet was invented by Bae Jun and was derived from his syllabic script, also called Naljeogigeul, which he developed as an alternative script for Korean. The Naljeogigeul alphabet is designed to make it easier to write other languages, especially languages with many consonant clusters. Most characters in the alphabetic version of…
Nama (Namagowab) Nama or Hottentot is the largest of the Khoisan languages and is spoken in parts of South Africa, Botswana and Namibia by approximately 233,701 people. The Hottentot people usually refer to themselves and their language as Nama, the name of the largest of the Hottentot-speaking tribes. The word ‘Khoisan’ comes from ‘khoi’, the…
Nanai (Нанай / Nanaj) Nanai belongs to the Southern (Amur, or Nanai) branch of the Manchu-Tungus languages. It is spoken by about 5,000 speakers in Siberia, specifically in the Khabarovsk and Primorye territories, and in the Poronay district of the Sakhalin region of the Russia Federation. A slightly different dialect, known as Hezhen (赫哲语), is…
Nari alphabet The Nari alphabet is the creation by Thomas Slawson (thbslawson@yahoo.com). It grew out a fascination with and study of various languages. Thomas is currently also developing an accompanying storyline of the imaginary people who will speak the Nari language. He has based the grammar of Nari on concepts borrowed from English, Hebrew,…
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